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By the year 2050, the world's population will reach nine billion. The demand on the world's resources - energy, first and foremost - will be severe. But the road from now to then doesn't need be...
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DOE JGI Science Highlights: Prototypical genomic study of Plant ...
DOE JGI Science Highlights: Prototypical genomic study of Plant-Microbe Interaction. Instead of using dangerous and toxic pesticides or expensive fertilizers, farmers may one day use microbes to fully...
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Roots and microbes: Bringing a complex underground ecology into ...
The work establishes an experimental framework for examining how plants interact with a microbial community that can influence their growth and development, productivity, and impact on the...
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Microevolution of symbiotic Bradyrhizobium populations associated with...
AbstractMicroevolution and origins of Bradyrhizobium populations associated with soybeans at two field sites (A and B, 280 km apart in Canada) with contrasting histories of inoculation was investigated...
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Nature Communications: The evolution and pathogenic mechanisms of the rice...
Rhizoctonia solani is a major fungal pathogen of rice (Oryza sativa L.) that causes great yield losses in all rice-growing regions of the world. Here we report the draft genome sequence of the rice...
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Engineering the plant rhizosphere
Plant natural products are low molecular weight compounds playing important roles in plant survival under biotic and abiotic stresses. In the rhizosphere, several groups of plant natural products...
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal dialogues: do you speak ‘plantish’ or ‘fungish’?
Plants rely on their associated microbiota for crucial physiological activities; realization of this interaction drives research to understand inter-domain communication. This opinion article focuses...
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21st century agriculture: integration of plant microbiomes for improved crop...
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Phytohormones as integrators of environmental signals in the regulation of...
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. SummaryFor survival, plants have to efficiently adjust their phenotype to environmental challenges, finely coordinating their responses to balance growth and defence.See it...
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Phytohormones as integrators of environmental signals in the regulation of...
I. II. III. IV. V. VI. SummaryFor survival, plants have to efficiently adjust their phenotype to environmental challenges, finely coordinating their responses to balance growth and defence.See it...
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Temporal patterns of orchid mycorrhizal fungi in meadows and forests as...
Orchid mycorrhizal (OrM) symbionts play a key role in the growth of orchids, but the temporal variation and habitat partitioning of these fungi in roots and soil remain unclear.Temporal changes in root...
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Mycorrhizal networks and coexistence in species-rich orchid communities -...
Multispecies assemblages often consist of a complex network of interactions. Describing the architecture of these networks is a first step in understanding the stability and persistence of these...
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Mycorrhizal ecology and evolution: the past, the present, and the future
Almost all land plants form symbiotic associations with mycorrhizal fungi. These below-ground fungi play a key role in terrestrial ecosystems as they regulate nutrient and carbon cycles, and influence...
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Selection for cheating across disparate environments in the legume-rhizobium...
The primary dilemma in evolutionarily stable mutualisms is that natural selection for cheating could overwhelm selection for cooperation. Cheating need not entail parasitism; selection favours...
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Three explanations for biodiversity hotspots: small range size, geographical...
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Rapid quantification of rice root-associated bacteria by flow cytometry
Abstract To understand the mechanism of plant–bacterium interaction, it is critical to enumerate epiphytic bacteria colonizing the roots of the host. We developed a new approach, based on flow...
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Plant coevolution: evidences and new challenges
Coevolution has been defined as the reciprocal genetic change in interacting species owing to natural selection imposed by each on the other. The process of coevolution between plants and the...
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Transcriptome profiling of Bacillus subtilis OKB105 in response to rice...
Background Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) are soil beneficial microorganisms that colonize plant roots for nutritional purposes and accordingly benefit plants by increasing plant growth...
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Taxonomy of rhizobia and agrobacteria from the Rhizobiaceae family in light...
Phylogenomic analyses showed two major superclades within the family Rhizobiaceae that corresponded to the Rhizobium/Agrobacterium and Shinella/Ensifer groups. Within the Rhizobium/Agrobacterium...
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Rhizoxin Analogs Contribute to the Biocontrol Activity of a Newly Isolated...
Two strains of Pseudomonas sp., Os17 and St29, were newly isolated from the rhizosphere of rice and potato, respectively, by screening for 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol producers. These strains were...
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Botanical brilliance
In Plant Behaviour and Intelligence, Anthony Trewavas challenges us to leave behind our prejudices and view the world from a plant's perspective. Plants, he argues, behave on their own time scale, with...
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A Genomic Encyclopedia of the Root Nodule Bacteria: assessing genetic...
Root nodule bacteria are free-living soil bacteria, belonging to diverse genera within the Alphaproteobacteria and Betaproteobacteria, that have the capacity to form nitrogen-fixing symbioses with...
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Multiple steps control immunity during the intracellular accommodation of...
Medicago truncatula belongs to the legume family and forms symbiotic associations with nitrogen fixing bacteria, the rhizobia. During these interactions, the plants develop root nodules in which...
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Microbial hotspots and hot moments in soil: Concept & review
Soils are the most heterogeneous parts of the biosphere, with an extremely high differentiation of properties and processes within nano-to macroscales. The spatial and temporal heterogeneity of input...
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The composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities differs among...
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are essential constituents of most terrestrial ecosystems. AMF species differ in terms of propagation strategies and the major propagules they form. This study...
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Prokaryotic Microbes with Eukaryote-like Genes Found
A newly identified group of deep sea-dwelling microbes has been classified as archaea—prokaryotic, primitive microorganisms. But these microbes harbor a suite of genes found in eukaryotes which are...
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Compact graphical representation of phylogenetic data and metadata with GraPhlAn
The increased availability of genomic and metagenomic data poses challenges at multiple analysis levels, including visualization of very large-scale microbial and microbial community data paired with...
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Reconstructing ancient genomes and epigenomes : Nature Reviews Genetics :...
Research involving ancient DNA (aDNA) has experienced a true technological revolution in recent years through advances in the recovery of aDNA and, particularly, through applications of high-throughput...
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A Legume Genetic Framework Controls Infection of Nodules by Symbiotic and...
Legumes have an intrinsic capacity to accommodate both symbiotic and endophytic bacteria within root nodules. For the symbionts, a complex genetic mechanism that allows mutual recognition and plant...
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Large-scale phylogenetic analyses reveal multiple gains of actinorhizal...
Nitrogen is fundamental to all life forms and is also one of the most limiting of nutrients for plant growth. Several clades of angiosperms have developed symbiotic relationships with actinorhizal...
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